Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 60 of 111, unchanged
Palo Alto · 5 categories · Named, not rankedPalo Alto Cortex
15Judge labels
0First choices
6Negative labels
9 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
6 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Palo Alto Cortex was named 6 times in Threat intel and 4 other categories, where MISP led with 12%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market64 of 119
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise68 of 83
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In threat intel · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Palo Alto Cortex for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Threat intelligence platforms | Security operations | 0% | 64 of 119 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by MISP at 12% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| AI SOC agents | Security operations | 0% | 72 of 104 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Dropzone AI at 24% | |
| Identity threat detection and response | Identity and access | 0% | 91 of 105 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Huntress Managed ITDR at 51% | |
| Managed detection and response | Security operations | 0% | 67 of 67 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response at 37% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| SOAR platforms | Security operations | 0% | 37 of 67 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Tines at 41% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Palo Alto Cortex held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Threat intel · by segment
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 84 → 64 of 78
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Threat intel | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 64 of 119, unchanged |
| AI SOC agents | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 72 of 104, unchanged |
| ITDR | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 91 of 105, unchanged |
| MDR | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 67 of 67, unchanged |
| SOAR | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 37 of 67, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Palo Alto Cortex across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Palo Alto Cortex across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative5 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If you use a modern SIEM or XDR (like Microsoft Sentinel/Logic Apps, CrowdStrike, or Palo Alto Cortex), they often have built-in automation capabilities.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SOAR · scale prompt · alternative
“if you are already standardized on Palo Alto and want tighter ecosystem integration” Perplexity Sonar · AI SOC agents · paraphrase prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“can be highly expensive and may require you to buy into their entire ecosystem” Gemini 3.5 Flash · MDR · scale prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Palo Alto Cortex, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Palo Alto Cortex was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Palo Alto Cortex, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Palo Alto Cortex was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Palo Alto Cortex. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 14 of the 15 answers that named Palo Alto Cortex and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
wiz.io5
cynet.com4
guideflow.com4
paloaltonetworks.comYour site4
slashdot.org4
cloudsek.com3
flare.io3
huntress.com3
learn.g2.com3
rapid7.com3
Thirty-two of the thirty-six domain citations in answers naming Palo Alto Cortex came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Palo Alto Cortex
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Palo Alto Cortex; a claim can dispute any of them.
Palo Alto Cortex/Charlotte AI 1
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The company
Palo Alto is the company behind Palo Alto Cortex.ShowHide
The company
Palo Alto is the company behind Palo Alto Cortex.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Palo Alto
- Palo Alto DNS Security, Palo Alto Enterprise DLP, Palo Alto GlobalProtect, Palo Alto Industrial OT, Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto PA-140, Palo Alto PA-Series, Palo Alto PAN-OS and 8 more
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Automate security operations with Cortex XSOAR, unifying incident response, threat intel, and workflow automation to enhance SOC efficiency and reduce remediation time.
- For
- Security Analysts
- Integrations claimed
- 900 paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cortex-xsoar · 1000 paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/modernize-siem pages disagree
- Certifications
- FedRAMP HighHIPAAISO35+ security and compliance certifications
- Customers named
- The State of North Dakota Information Technology (NDIT)BNLLogicalisInfosysEsriNaranjaFlexPLDT
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, hosting
What Palo Alto Cortex's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cortex-xsoar, paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cortex-xpanse, unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/tag/cortex-xpanse, paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/modernize-siem, paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/detection-and-response. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Palo Alto Cortex by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Palo Alto Cortex is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Palo Alto Cortex, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.